Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jobs and Politics. The son of a Nuneaton (Warwickshire) parish priest, Geoffrey Fisher won honors at Oxford by working hard. Ever since, he has had an easy time of it, falling into one job after another. The first was a three-year stretch as an assistant master at Marlborough, his old school. Then he started in William Temple's footsteps: he succeeded him as headmaster of Repton School. Finally, with an agility that left many a churchman popeyed, Fisher in 1932 stepped directly from 21 years of schoolmastering into the Bishopric of Chester...
...street, using a street child's dialect and detail, told her the facts of life. Totally unprepared for such reality, she was plunged into a year of adolescent hell. Disillusioned with her parents and friends, she went to church twice a day, often knelt for hours at a stretch. At length she announced that she was going to become a Carmelite, an order of nuns which requires complete seclusion. Soon afterward, at 14, she had a nervous breakdown and was whisked off to Chesapeake Bay for six months of complete rest...
...Northwest was back in the black, and last year its net profits of $517,000 were the highest ever. After the war, Hunter expects to stretch Northwest's routes all the way to the Orient by way of Alaska, to which he is already flying for the Army. To make this trans-pacific route financially feasible, Hunter had to have the Milwaukee-New York link. But he made it plain last week that he wants no help for this big job. He brushed off the suggestion of CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue that Northwest merge with Pennsylvania-Central Airlines, presumably...
...buying an entire town. For $10 million the cooperative got not only the jail, the city hall and the utilities of the company town of Westwood, Calif, (pop.: 3.500), but also a sawmill, a veneer plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres of timber for packing cases for their citrus fruits. It was one of the biggest lumber deals in U.S. history...
...Sidney and the overseer are obviously sinister from the start; little by little the aunt & uncle begin to seem queer to her too. In the most promising stretch of the picture, as she flinches in terror of groaning shutters and sudden extinctions of the lights, or follows the beckoning of inchoate voices into the swamp, it is as impossible for the audience as for the victim to know what is plain fact, what is the hallucination of a crumbling mind, who if anybody is to be trusted...